Gong Qianyun
CountryChina
Singapore
Born (1985-03-11) 11 March 1985
Lechang, Shaoguan, Guangdong, China
TitleWoman Grandmaster (2018)
Peak rating2381 (February 2019)

Gong Qianyun (Chinese: 龚倩云; born 11 March 1985)[1] is a Chinese-born Singaporean chess player. She was awarded the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM) by FIDE in 2018.[2]

Chess career

Gong finished fourth in the 2001 Women's Chinese Chess Championship.[3] She won the Singaporean women's championships of 2012,[4] 2015,[5] 2016,[6] 2017[7] and 2018.[8]

Gong played on board four on the Chinese women's team — the only women's team present — at the World Team Chess Championship held in Beersheba, Israel in 2005.[9][10][11][12] The following year, she won the Women's World University Chess Championship in Lagos, Nigeria with a score of 7/9 points, contributing to China's team gold medal.[13]

After a series of defeat, Gong left the Chinese teams in 2007 and moved to Hong Kong where she taught chess there.[14]

In 2009, Gong moved to Singapore to work as a chess coach.[15]

In 2014, Gong transferred to the Singapore Chess Federation and started to represent Singapore.[16] In the same year, she played for the Singaporean team on board three in the open section of the 41st Chess Olympiad[17] and earned a norm for the title Woman Grandmaster thanks to a performance rating of 2412.[18] In June 2018, Gong earned her final WGM norm at the QCD Prof Lim Kok Ann Invitational tournament.[19][20] In December, she tied with Padmini Rout for first place in the Asian Women's Continental Championship in Makati, Philippines, scoring 7/9 points. Gong took the silver medal on tiebreak score.[21]

Gong plays for Qingdao Yucai chess club in the China Chess League (CCL).[22]

Personal life

Gong is married with 2 children.[23]

References

  1. ↑ "中国国际象棋运动员等级分数据库". Archived from the original on 2013-11-12. Retrieved 2008-03-03.
  2. ↑ "List of titles approved by the 2018 2nd quarter PB in Bucharest, Romania". FIDE. 2018-07-12.
  3. ↑ "Chinese National Championship 2001". ChessBase. 2001-11-18. Retrieved 11 December 2015.
  4. ↑ "64th National Championships 2012 - Women". chess-results.com.
  5. ↑ "67th National Chess Championship 2015 - Women". chess-results.com.
  6. ↑ "68th National Women Championships 2016". chess-results.com.
  7. ↑ "69th National Chess Championships 2017 - Women". chess-results.com.
  8. ↑ "70th Singapore National Chess Championships 2018 - Women". chess-results.com.
  9. ↑ World Men's Team Chess Championship - Gong Qianyun OlimpBase
  10. ↑ ChessBase.com - Chess News - Russia leads in the World Team Championships
  11. ↑ ChessBase.com - Chess News - WCTC – China still in the lead
  12. ↑ ChessBase.com - Chess News - World Team Championships – the Chinese are coming
  13. ↑ "World University Championships - Chess" (PDF). FISU. University Sports Magazine. Retrieved 11 December 2015.
  14. ↑ "Singapore chess and The Queen's Gambit: Has the Netflix show raised interest in the game?". CNA. Retrieved 2021-09-20.
  15. ↑ "Gong Qianyun wins Singapore's historic SEA Games gold in chess". The New Paper. 2019-12-04. Retrieved 2021-09-20.
  16. ↑ Player transfers in 2014 FIDE. Retrieved 11 December 2015
  17. ↑ Men's Chess Olympiads: Gong Qianyun. OlimpBase.
  18. ↑ 41st Olympiad Tromso 2014 Open - IM and GM FIDE-Norms. chess-results.com.
  19. ↑ Title Applications. 2nd quarter Presidential Board Meeting 2018, July 8-11, Bucharest, ROU.. FIDE.
  20. ↑ Tay, Junior (2018-07-21). "Gong Qianyun: "I had to clean toilets if I failed to memorize the classics correctly!"". ChessBase India. Retrieved 2019-04-24.
  21. ↑ "Wei, Padmini Wins Asian Continental Championship 2018". FIDE. 2018-12-19.
  22. ↑ "雅戈尔杯中国国际象棋甲级联赛官方网站". Archived from the original on 2011-10-28. Retrieved 2009-12-17.
  23. ↑ "Gong Qianyun: "I had to clean toilets if I failed to memorize the classics correctly!" - ChessBase India". www.chessbase.in. 21 July 2018. Retrieved 2021-09-20.
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